Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Taro
and other plants in the Colocasia family (Araceae) are quite common in
this region. They also contain all of the essential amino acids and in
the proper usable proportions. Your body stores non-essential amino
acids, so eating other wild plants in a survival situation would provide
you with a complete protein. You DO NOT have to eat these amino acids
in the same meal... again, your body stores the amino acids to be
combine when needed.

Some wild fruits would provide some of the
missing aminos. The legumes from the Sataw (สะตอ) tree seeds (Parkia
speciosa) are the perfect compliment to Taro.

Survival shows are a very poor source of accurate (scientifically
verifiable) information about actual survival. On a recent episode of
Naked and Afraid, one of the participants was a life-long vegetarian. As
thoroughly expect, both the carnivorous guy and the narrator had to
comment on how difficult it was going to be for her to find protein...
yawn.

While he was basically starving, the woman went out and
found food... food that didn't run away and didn't fight back. In this
image, she is offering him 'River Cabbage'. I'm not exactly sure of the
actual species as I'm not up on my South American wild edible plants.
However, a dark green broad leaf like that would certainly be packed
with nutrients, such as Vitamins A, C, K, B (specifically Folic Acid),
and minerals like potassium and calcium. The calcium can have less
bio-availability in some dark green leaves due to oxalates. This slight
problem is solved by heat.

Many dark green leafy plants contain
all of the essential amino acids: tryptophan, histidine, isoleucine,
leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, valine and tend
to have some of the non-essential amino acids as well.

The human
body stores amino acids. You do NOT have to have a complete protein in
every meal in order to get the protein you need.Plus, she found
fruits, edible flowers, and other plants, so even if River Cabbage is
slightly low in one of the essential amino acids, there is a good chance
that should would have gotten it elsewhere.

As expected, his energy petered out and though she felt a bit weak, she had no energy issues like he had.

I
do get thoroughly tired of every survival show preaching about protein.
It's really NOT that difficult to get what you need and 21 days is not
long enough to do permanent bodily damage if you didn't get any...
period.

Wilderness Jungle Survival Trekking and Training

As we move further and further away from nature, it seems like a lot of us are interested in finding out if we could actually go backwards and live off of the land... it seems like the latest buzz is doing it with as little as possible, be that in the form of getting lost (survival) or minimalist camping (bushcraft).

You can experience the joy of being able to survive with minimal gear while enjoying one of our survival training courses. Khao Sok is the best place for this combination. Phang Nga Province offers old growth jungle and it's logistically much easier than Khao Sok.

A big part of the trip is jungle trekking. It’s so beautiful here that you’ll want to hike around anyway. During your trekking adventures you’ll learn a lot about the abundant wild edible plants in southern Thailand.